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Bryon York point out that Chris Matthews has a selective memory (goes with the lazy leg)...

By using the word "regime," Limbaugh was doing something he does all the time: throwing the language of the opposition back in their faces. In the Bush years, we often heard the phrase "Bush regime" from some quarters of the left. So Limbaugh applied it to Obama.

Apparently some people didn't get it. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews appeared deeply troubled by the word. "I've never seen language like this in the American press," he said, "referring to an elected representative government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election -- we will have another one in November, we'll have another one for president in a couple years -- fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country…. We know that word, 'regime.' It was used by George Bush, 'regime change.' You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They're juntas. They're military coups. The use of the word 'regime' in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it."

I'm not accessing Nexis as Bryon York did, but Bing finds 9.350M answering hits, including the official Wiki entry for the "Presidency of George W. Bush", lovingly answering to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_regime.

You've been discredited again, lefty leg tingly sort of proggtard, Chris Matthews.

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h/t Darleen Click